Facts[edit] Tallest drop ride in the world 415 feet 90 mph Ascend in 30 seconds Drop in 10 seconds Three towers built on Kingda Ka Eight-person gondolas with 24 riders per cycle Three gondolas ascend simultaneously but drop independently Taller than Londons Big Ben and twice as tall as Statue of Liberty Drop is as fast as a female cheetah 5,551 feet of wire ropes and cables are used to build Zumanjaro. Equal to 617 jumping ropes. 2,490 feet of guide rail (track) if laid end to end, is taller than the Eiffel Tower stacked on top of the Empire State Building. 810 feet of linear magnetic brakes - equal to the height of the Great Sphinx reclining on top of the Golden Gate Bridge. 62,544 pounds of drum/motor to lift riders to the top —equal to the weight of 500 car motors. 161 different kinds of bolts and a grand total of 26,502 bolts were used to build Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom. The drum/winch mechanism that operates the lift cable is a whopping 17-feet-wide by 9-foot-diameter — the size of a rental moving truck Construction crews added 226,226 pounds of steel structural reinforcing columns to Kingda Ka to support Zumanjaro — equal to the weight of 32 massive Africa elephants The name Zumanjaro has African influences. Opened on July 4, 2014
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:03:10 +0000
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